Item Archive: Checkpoint Helsinki
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Press release: Open call for Volunteers for a Performative Action by Khaled Jarrar (Palestine)
Press release, 5th of August, 2014 Open call for Volunteers for a Performative Action by Khaled Jarrar (Palestine) On Power, Dis-/Obedience and War Meeting point for volunteers: LASIPALATSI SQUARE at 5pm on Tuesday, 26 August Performance: The action starts at … Continue reading
Posted in News, Press, Re-Aligned
Tagged action, activism, Checkpoint Helsinki, helsinki, Khaled Jarrar, performance, perpetuum mobile, re-aligned, To The Square 2
Updated Press release: TO THE SQUARE 2 takes over Lasipalatsi Square (August)
Press Release, updated 12.8.2014: On the heels of the positive public resonance generated by BACK TO (THE) SQUARE 1 around Helsinki in March 2014, Checkpoint Helsinki presents a second iteration of the Re-Aligned Project curated by Ivor Stodolsky and Marita … Continue reading
Posted in Map, News, Press, Re-Aligned, Timeline
Tagged activism, activist, Back To (The) Square 1, Checkpoint Helsinki, Egypt, festival, MENA, opening, Palestine, press
TO THE SQUARE 2
Curated by Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen Commissioned by Checkpoint Helsinki as part of Helsinki Festival www.checkpointhelsinki.fi A part of the Re-Aligned Project of Perpetuum Mobilε Lasipalatsi Square, Helsinki 22-31 August, 2014 On the heels of the positive public resonance … Continue reading
Posted in Map, News, Press, Re-Aligned, Timeline
Tagged Checkpoint Helsinki, re-aligned, To The Square 2
RE-ALIGNED recieves commission from CHECKPOINT HELSINKI
December 2013 Perpetuum Mobilε ry has been commissioned by Checkpoint Helsinki to curate an exhibition-process about art and politics based on fresh curatorial research in the MENA (Middle East and Northern Africa) region, and the experience and ideas already developed in … Continue reading
Posted in News, Press, Re-Aligned, Timeline
Tagged Checkpoint Helsinki, Egypt, MENA, Palestine, perpetuum mobile, Phase II, re-aligned
On The Move / Safe Haven Resident: Ramy Essam
Ramy Essam (born 1987 in Mansoura, Egypt, and currently based in Malmö, Sweden) is a musician known as the “singer of Tahrir Square” during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. The song “Erhal” (Leave), in which Mubarak was urged to resign, became known … Continue reading
Posted in Artists at Risk (AR)
Tagged activism, artists at risk, Checkpoint Helsinki, Egypt, Egyptian revolution, Erhal, helsinki, Malmo, perpetuum mobile, Rami Essam, Tahrir Square, To The Square 2
The Helsinki Housing Manifesto
The Housing Agenda, the Ateneum Museum resulted in the The Helsinki Housing Manifesto (click to download the pdf) which was presented by Miranda Vuolasranta to a high-level EU conference on Roma issues in Brussels in November 2011. The Housing Agenda … Continue reading
Posted in Map, News, Perpetual Romani Pavilion, Timeline
Tagged Checkpoint Helsinki, helsinki, perpetuum mobile, Vladan Jeremić & Rena Rädle